The Disappeared
They have denied you rest, all that you saw and could not tell. Your sealed eyes saw the monsters that we were, and today we observe you. Your mouth cannot yet tell us but memory has made you one with us. Rest in peace.
Painting by Diego Andrea Ceccoli from the exhibition Los Monstruos que Fuimos (The monsters that we were): an exhibition of collages of dictators from the all-too-recent past including Pinochet, Hitler and George W.Bush amongst others. Using a combination of propoganda-style imagery with bloody colours Ceccoli creates sinister images that the exhibition notes described as 'denouncing the barbarity that man has demonstrated himself capable of'.
The 24th March 2013 marked the 37th anniversary of the coup d'etát of 1976 that placed the 'Proceso de Reorganiazión Nacional' in government in Argentina, leading to the most bloody period in the country's history. The 24th March now marks the 'Día Nacional de la Memoria por la Verdad y la Justicia' (The National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice) and is an opportunity to commemorate all those who died during the dictatorship, hence this exhibition of Ceccoli at the Sala de Exposiciones de la Legislatura Porteña in BsAs.
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